Internet Explorer keeps deleting / will not import Favourites

[driftdown]

After a rather unpleasant experience requiring a format of the hard drive with reinstallation of XP and other programs I now find IE8 initially started to delete my saved favourites and now will not import them from a saved location.

The story.

Being a dummy I forgot to save them before the formatting and reinstallation so I went to all the sites and saved each individually. Favourites was then exported to C Drive (Bookmark).

First time I found they had disappeared I was a little taken aback but imported them again. That seemed to do the trick for a couple of days until I opened IE to find they had disappeared again. Now they will not import when selected (file -> import / export option).

I have the bookmark on the desktop so can still go direct to the sites I want but it is a little irritating that things are not working the way they should.

Can anybody shed some light on why this is happening and what to do or where to look to solve it.

[munirfarhan]

very weird

please google the issue

clueless

[driftdown]

What is even stranger is that quite out of the blue all previously saved favourites are available and that is without trying to re-import them again.

Now what is that all about? Still probably better not to think about it too much

[rgbrock1]

driftdown:

And why do you insist on using Internet Exploder? Have you tried Firefox?
Opera? Safari? Google chrome? There are quite a few web browsers out there which function quite nicely.

[G-CPTN]

Firefox isn't infallible - it has stopped saving Bookmarks - when I click on 'Bookmark this page' - nothing happens.

[G-CPTN]

No popup window appears after the initial 'Bookmark this page' (with a list of non-toolbar bookmarks).

Add-ons:-
Java Platform SE 6 U18 6.0.180.7
M/S Office live 2.0.3009.0
M/S WMP 1.0.0.8
Mozilla default 1.0.0.15
Picasa 2.0.0.0
QuickTime 7.6.2.0
RealJukebox NS 1.0.2.2955
RealPlayer Version 6.0.12.1675
RealPlayer (tm) G2 LiveConnect-Enabled 6.0.11.2897
Shockwave Flash 10.0.45.2
Shockwave for Director 11.0.3.472
Silverlight 3.0.50106.0
VLC Multimedia 1.0.2.0
WindowsLivePhotoGallery
Windows Presentation Foundation 3.5.30729.1

[G-CPTN]

Sorry, they are Plugins as listed under 'Tools' 'Plug-ins'.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Here's the Add-ons:-
Adblock Plus 1.1.3
AVG Safe Search 9.0.0.812
British English Dictionary 1.19
Crawler Toolbar 1.3 (disabled)
Dictionary.com Toolbar 3.5.0.145
Flash Video Resources Downloader 1.0.3
Forecastfox 0.9.10.2
Java Console 6.0.15 disabled
Java Console 6.0.16 disabled
Java Console 6.0.17 disabled
Java Console 6.0.18
Freegle Member Plugin 3.0.112
M/S .NET Framework Assistant 0.0.0

[green granite]

Does it work if you type CNTR+D ?

[G-CPTN]

Nope - it just 'pages down' the list of Bookmarks . . .